August 2 - Saturday of the 17th Week in Ordinary Time, Year I
(Lv.25:1,8-17; Ps.67:2-5,7-8; Mt.14:1-12) “It is really the number of crops he sells you.” The earth is the Lord’s; it is not our own. And it is only by His grace that we share the fruits of the land. “The earth has yielded its fruits; God, our God, has blessed us,” our psalm declares. These fruits may be bought and sold, but the land is God’s own. “In this year of jubilee, then, every one of you shall return to his own property.” “This fiftieth year you shall make sacred by proclaiming liberty in the land for all its inhabitants.” The jubilee year delineated in our first reading makes clear…
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